Sauced: Cranberry-Apple Relish

I whipped up this cranberry-apple relish as a quick alternative to the holiday mainstay by pulsing fresh cranberries, apple, sugar, and orange juice and zest together in a food processor.

At my mock Thanksgiving dinner (where I guinea-pig my friends to taste test all these recipes), this cranberry-apple relish beat out the actual sauce pretty unanimously. Everyone seemed to like the change of pace and the added sweet fruity flavor apples brought to the tart cranberries. It even made an encore appearance at dessert with the apple pie, but didn't stop there, later proving to be a crucial topping in Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches. For a few minutes of work, this relish sure saw a lot of action.

About the author:Joshua Bousel brings you new, tasty condiment each
Wednesday and a recipe for weekend grilling every Friday. He also writes about grilling and barbecue on his blog The Meatwave whenever he can be pulled away from his grill.

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Sharing his love between three beautiful grills and two handsome smokers (oh, and lets not forget a wife and a couple cats), Josh has a passion for grilling and barbecue that seems to grow bigger everyday.

Starting with a bi-weekly backyard barbecue series called The Meatwave in 2004, this pastime quickly became an obsession that turned into a full fledged recipe blog a few years later. He then brought those grillmaster skills to Serious Eats in 2008, delivering the best in grilling recipes every week. Taking the plunge from backyard to pro, he started up a competition team in the spring of 2012 and quickly added the "award-winning" label to his barbecue.

At this point, Josh has slow smoked and eaten so much pork, he's legally recognized as being part swine.